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title: "Agent Runners can now ask clarifying questions"
description: "Agent Runners can now pause to ask a few clarifying questions before building, so your first Deploy Preview lands closer to what you had in mind."
source: "https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-08-19-agent-runners-clarifying-questions/"
last_updated: "2026-08-19T21:45:30.000Z"
---
Agent Runners can now ask you clarifying questions before they start building. When a few details could significantly improve the result, the agent pauses and asks instead of guessing.

![The clarifying questions UI in an Agent Runners session, asking: What should the tracker dashboard keep track of?](/images/changelog/agent-runners-clarifying-questions.png)

## How clarifying questions work

Say you start with something broad, like “Build a tracker dashboard.” Previously the agent had to make every call for you: what the dashboard should track, whether entries should be editable and saved to a database or live in the code as a read-only placeholder, whether the look should be dark and high-contrast or light, clean, and editorial. Now it can ask, and you can answer directly where the agent run works.

## Answer, skip, or add your own context

Answering questions is always optional so you can answer the ones you have opinions about and skip the rest. Or you can skip all questions and let the agent decide. Finally, you can always add context in your own words alongside your answers.

In our testing, even a few quick answers make the first build noticeably sharper and saves credits you’d otherwise spend on course corrections.

Once you answer, the run continues as usual: the agent writes the code, works with Netlify’s platform features, and creates a Deploy Preview you can review and iterate on.

## Learn more

Clarifying questions work with every agent and model available in Agent Runners.

Try it out and see [how to use Agent Runners](https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/agent-runners/make-changes-with-agent-runners/) in our docs.